The latest kerfuffle in the news is the cost of food in the North. Really? It all has to be shipped into communities and reserves because the people who live there insist on staying there. It's all about money, of course, but here's the BS:
Natives insist on staying on remote northern reserves because they want to preserve their traditional way of life. Yet, they want to eat Cornflakes and strawberries and hang around the house. If you want to remain traditional, get on your sleds, go out and kill seals and trap food. Otherwise, move! Ah, but they can't because staying in these hell-holes guarantees them money.
The whole thing is a ludicrous Catch 22. Stay on the reserve because that's how you get money, but don't hunt and trap. Instead, eat ridiculously expensive commercial food. Duh!!?? Now we hear that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will be visiting all sorts of native reserves and crying and wailing about the conditions in these dismal communities. "It will be wonderful for the Royals to see how we live and take our concerns back to Her Majesty," said Perry Bellegarde, the ignorant chief of the AFN. What an idiot. Does he still not realize that The Crown delegated all native matters to Canada way back when!? You do not deal with Queens Victoria or Elizabeth, buddy. You deal with Canada.
Once again, my solution is to move off-reserve, as my great-grandmother did, and become "Canadian". I am so sick of it.
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